NYTimes.com: After achieving notoriety as a nightmarishly campy, $8 million flop on Broadway in 1988, the musical “Carrie” rose from the ashes as a fervently earnest, $1.5 million revival Off Broadway this winter, and ran for 80 performances, or about four times as many as the original production had. But the second coming it wasn’t.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
What Happened to Off Broadway Revival of ‘Carrie’?
NYTimes.com: After achieving notoriety as a nightmarishly campy, $8 million flop on Broadway in 1988, the musical “Carrie” rose from the ashes as a fervently earnest, $1.5 million revival Off Broadway this winter, and ran for 80 performances, or about four times as many as the original production had. But the second coming it wasn’t.
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So a show whose patronage is only people who want to see if a show is as bad as it is fabled will not a long running show make. I mean, not many of the shows fail as famously as "Carrie" did. The show does seem to fall flat as far as story line. Also, I do not think Stephen King readers are a main demographic for Broadway shows. You can update and change the script and score, but that does not keep the the plot line from being the plot line, which is, in itself, not a story most people want to go to the theatre to see.
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